Important climate research from a team of scientists at Stanford University was announced in June. The research indicates that "many tropical regions in Africa, Asia and South America could see "the permanent emergence of unprecedented summer heat" in the next two decades. Middle latitudes of Europe, China and North America – including the United States – are likely to undergo extreme summer temperature shifts . . ."

Stanford released an article summarizing the research along with a short video featuring one of the researchers on its website here. The video clip is also included below. The complete research report is available in PDF form here, Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries

Important climate research from a team of scientists at Stanford University was announced in June. The research indicates that "many tropical regions in Africa, Asia and South America could see "the permanent emergence of unprecedented summer heat" in the next two decades. Middle latitudes of Europe, China and North America – including the United States – are likely to undergo extreme summer temperature shifts . . ."

Stanford released an article summarizing the research along with a short video featuring one of the researchers on its website here. The video clip is also included below. The complete research report is available in PDF form here, Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries

Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Associate Director of the National Science Foundation's Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity and Research (CHMPR) and the site director of the Multicore Computational Center (MC²), and has been doing exciting research with cloud computing through the centers.

To read more about Dr. Yesha's research pursuits, see her full research profile.

Dr. Curtis Menyuk, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in the theory and simulation of opitcal and photonic systems. A member of UMBC's Computational Photonics Laboratory, he is currently interested in short-pulse lasers and time and frequency transfer networks. "One of the central themes in my career has been an interest in solitons,” says Dr. Menyuk who first became interested in lasers in the early eighties while doing collaborative research with Linn Mollenauer.

To read more about Dr. Menyuk's research pursuits, see his full research profile.

I am Asian, so loving rice is a given. But I mainly love Fried Basmati Rice, and I am going to share with you my mom’s recipe for awesome rice.

You start off with some warm olive oil and fry some onions until they are lightly brown. Don’t use that picture as the best example, some are clearly dark brown, but you get the idea!

Next, you can add the spices: cloves, black cumin seeds and cinnamon sticks

finally add 1/4 of a teaspoon of garlic

Mix everything in with the lightly browned onions.

Add in the washed basmati rice (I used 2 cups for a family of 5)

Just stir in the rice with some fresh cilantro.

After you are done stirring, add enough water to cover the top of the rice by an inch.

Let the rice cook until the water evaporates! You don’t need to stir at this point

This goes well with a yogurt dip. Plain non-fat yogurt, green pepper, salt and pepper to taste, and a splash of lemon juice!

Enjoy!

Dr. Tülay Adali, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, specializes in statistical signal processing.Since 1992, Dr. Adali has been the director of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing Lab (MLSP-Lab) at UMBC. Currently, she has been working on diagnosing schizophrenia by analyzing functional MRI and other medical imaging data.

To read more about Dr. Adali's research pursuits, see her full research profile.

While demonstrations demanding democracy continue in Egypt… some are saying democracy is broken in the United States.

Current discussions about debt, taxes and the US economy have exposed a bitterly polarised Congress.

President Obama is doing his best to pull the two sides together but with little luck.

Is there hope for democracy here and abroad? (cartoon by KAL)